Tiresias Salon: A Trans-Psychoanalytic Reading Group 

Mondays bi-weekly, Sept 15, 2025 – May 31, 2026

11PT/12MT/2EST

Hosted by Tobias Wiggins 

The Tiresias Salon is a bi-weekly trans-centered psychoanalytic reading group committed to exploring how psychoanalysis can illuminate questions of gender, race, desire, embodiment, violence, and their relationship to the unconscious. This year’s readings will be inspired by the P-Hole curriculum, which is running in parallel. We come as together as queer and trans clinicians, scholars, and community members who have a shared interest in the radical potential of psychoanalytic thought when it is unapologetically politicized and reimaged at the margins. Readings may include classic texts by Freud, Lacan, and Winnicott; peripheralized analysts such as Frantz Fanon and Sabina Spielrein; and contemporary work in trans studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, disability studies, critical race theory and related fields.

The group is an experiment in collective study and is open to anyone curious about psychoanalysis, whether newcomers or experienced readers. Our aim is not mastery, but a shared experience of holding complexity, to wrestling with difficult texts, and experimenting with reading as a practice of transference and transition. Participants will include clinicians seeking to reflect on dynamics in their practice, scholars engaging psychoanalysis in their research or writing, and activists interested in drawing psychoanalytic insights into social and political realms.

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